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Arnold, Brian J. Justification In The Second Century. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. Xiv + 221 Pp. Softcover. Usd 39.95., Denis Fortin 2019 Andrews University

Arnold, Brian J. Justification In The Second Century. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. Xiv + 221 Pp. Softcover. Usd 39.95., Denis Fortin

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.


Schenk, Christine, Csj. Crispina And Her Sisters: Women And Authority In Early Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017. Xx + 459 Pp. Softcover. Usd 29.00., Carina O. Prestes 2019 Andrews University

Schenk, Christine, Csj. Crispina And Her Sisters: Women And Authority In Early Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017. Xx + 459 Pp. Softcover. Usd 29.00., Carina O. Prestes

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.


Worldviews: Concepts Or Narratives? An Integrative Definition To Assess Their Controlling Effect In The Biblical And Atheistic Evolutionary Models, Flavio Prestes III 2019 Andrews University

Worldviews: Concepts Or Narratives? An Integrative Definition To Assess Their Controlling Effect In The Biblical And Atheistic Evolutionary Models, Flavio Prestes Iii

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

What are worldviews? What are their characteristics? How do they work? This article offers tentative responses to these questions through the integration of concepts and narratives. Using the biblical and the atheistic evolutionary narratives as case studies, it also seeks to show how worldviews have a significant, though not absolute, controlling effect on one’s perception of reality.


Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Age, 2019 Andrews University

Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Age

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

One way to define a disciple is “a follower of someone’s words.” In a pluralistic age, there are many words beckoning would-be disciples to particular ways of life, all promising some kind of wellness. These word-ways are ingredients of worldviews, a program or map for orienting oneself in the world. Worldviews answer core questions about human existence, often in the form of a story. This essay argues that contemporary pluralism is the result of abandoning the Bible as our control story, a loss that is as much a failure of what Charles Taylor calls the social imaginary. If this diagnosis …


Sanctuary/Temple In Genesis 1–3: A Reevaluation Of The Biblical Evidence, Jahisber Peñuela-Pineda 2019 Andrews University

Sanctuary/Temple In Genesis 1–3: A Reevaluation Of The Biblical Evidence, Jahisber Peñuela-Pineda

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract


The Theological Significance Of The Relations Of Freedom And Time In The Sciences And Humanities: An Evaluation Of The Contributions Of David Bohm And Pauli Pylkkö, Michael F. Younker 2019 General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research

The Theological Significance Of The Relations Of Freedom And Time In The Sciences And Humanities: An Evaluation Of The Contributions Of David Bohm And Pauli Pylkkö, Michael F. Younker

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract


Doubt, Faith & Certainty [Review] / Thiselton, Anthony C., Rebecca Murdock 2019 Andrews University

Doubt, Faith & Certainty [Review] / Thiselton, Anthony C., Rebecca Murdock

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


Christ-Centered Bhakti:A Literary And Ethnographic Study Of Worship, Nadya Pohran 2019 University of Cambridge

Christ-Centered Bhakti:A Literary And Ethnographic Study Of Worship, Nadya Pohran

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Bhakti (loving devotion) centered on and directed to Jesus Christ—or what I here call "Christ-centred bhakti"—is an increasingly popular religious practice in India and elsewhere. The first half of this paper seeks to explore some of the roots of the contemporary spiritual practice of bhakti poetry which has been written and/or is being sung in India. An overview of bhakti in a broader sense provides the necessary foundation so as to then explore and contextualise the emerging practice of Christ-centered bhakti poetry—often called ‘Yeshu’ (Jesus) or ‘Khrist’ (Christ) bhajans (devotional hymns)—within the broader theological and experiential frameworks of Hindu bhakti. …


“There Are No Dharmas Apart From The Dharma-Sphere”: Shakya Chokden’S Interpretation Of The Dharma-Sphere, Yaroslav Komarovski 2019 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“There Are No Dharmas Apart From The Dharma-Sphere”: Shakya Chokden’S Interpretation Of The Dharma-Sphere, Yaroslav Komarovski

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

As is well known to contemporary scholarship and demonstrated by the works contained in the present volume, the Tibetan term zhentong (gzhan stong, being empty of other) refers not to any one unanimous view or system of thought but to a wide variety of philosophical theories formed primarily in India and Tibet. Those theories are often contrasted with rival rangtong (rang stong, being empty of self)1 theories in their interpretations of reality, buddhahood, path, and other elements of the Buddhist worldiew. While many of those elements are equally open to the zhentong and rangtong interpretations, …


Book Review: Christianity In India: Conversion, Community Development, And Religious Freedom. Edited By Rebecca Samuel Shah And Joel Carpenter. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, Xix + 311 Pages., Chad M. Bauman 2019 Butler University

Book Review: Christianity In India: Conversion, Community Development, And Religious Freedom. Edited By Rebecca Samuel Shah And Joel Carpenter. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, Xix + 311 Pages., Chad M. Bauman

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom. Edited by Rebecca Samuel Shah and Joel Carpenter. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018, xix + 311 pages


Editor’S Introduction, Gopal Gupta 2019 University of Evansville

Editor’S Introduction, Gopal Gupta

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

No abstract provided.


Review Of Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For:The Power Of Conversion And The Foreignness Of Belonging In An Indian Slum, Eliza F. Kent 2019 Skidmore College

Review Of Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For:The Power Of Conversion And The Foreignness Of Belonging In An Indian Slum, Eliza F. Kent

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

This article focuses on Roberts’ argument that the religiosity of urban Tamil Dalits, or “slum religion,” transcends Hindu or Christian affiliation. Roberts’ ethnography challenges the dominant discourse surrounding Pentecostal Christianity which asserts that conversion is inevitably divisive, splitting families and communities and even individuals in harmful ways that justify its tight legal regulation. To the contrary, Roberts’ fieldwork reveals how the deeply pragmatic nature of Dalit religion allows for significant individual variation and dynamism without inordinate contentiousness. To Be Cared For also contributes to scholarship on women and religion in India, sensitively illustrating the tensions and strains within urban Dalit …


Caste, Conversion, And Care:Toward An Anthropology Of Christianity In India, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2019 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Caste, Conversion, And Care:Toward An Anthropology Of Christianity In India, Sarbeswar Sahoo

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

This paper critically examines Nathaniel Roberts’ book, To be Cared For. It argues that by discussing the “unique moral problems and cultural contradictions” that surround the everyday life-world of low caste Dalit Pentecostals in a slum in Chennai, Roberts provides a rich ethnography of caste, Christianity and care in India. In particular, the book makes several contributions: first, it provides a nuanced, contextual understanding of the “pluralities” of Indian Christianities; second, contrary to Gandhian view of “religion as spirituality”, it shows (by questioning the hierarchy of the religious world) how materiality or worldly benefits occupy a central role in the …


The Papal Encyclical Ad Extremas (1893):The Call For An Indigenous Indian Clergy, Its Effects Upon Thecatholic Church In India, And Its Description Of Indian Religions, Andrew Unsworth 2019 Butler University

The Papal Encyclical Ad Extremas (1893):The Call For An Indigenous Indian Clergy, Its Effects Upon Thecatholic Church In India, And Its Description Of Indian Religions, Andrew Unsworth

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Ad Extremas, an encyclical epistle issued by Pope Leo XIII, gives a rare insight into the official opinion of the Catholic Church with regard to India’s indigenous religious traditions at the close of the nineteenth century. By means of a historical and textual analysis of the document, this essay offers a critical assessment of its contents facilitating a better appreciation of the ecclesial transition that occurred between the pontificate of Leo XIII and the promulgation of those texts of the Second Vatican Council that made reference to Hinduism.


On Śrīla Prabhupāda’S Insistence That“‘Christ’ Came From ‘Krishna.’”, Ronald V. Huggins 2019 Butler University

On Śrīla Prabhupāda’S Insistence That“‘Christ’ Came From ‘Krishna.’”, Ronald V. Huggins

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

ISKCON founder Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda was convinced that the name Christ was derived from Krishna. He frequently appealed to this as a way of dispelling Western Christian reservations about participating in kirtana. The present article explores (1) the place this etymological claim played in Prabhupāda’s thinking and missionary strategy, (2) how he came to defend it in the first place, and (3) how his defense fit into the ongoing East/West discussion of the alleged etymological interdependence of Christ and Krishna that has been going on since the 18th century. At the heart of Prabhupāda’s argument is the interchangeability of Ns …


The Virtues Of Comparative Theology, Daniel J. Soars 2019 Eton College

The Virtues Of Comparative Theology, Daniel J. Soars

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In this article, I focus on a small section in the epilogue of Francis X. Clooney’s The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies in which he outlines some of the personal characteristics needed to do comparative theology well. He takes five of these from Catherine Cornille’s The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue and adds several of his own. By exploring notions like doctrinal humility and rootedness in a particular tradition, we are forced to reflect upon the ‘virtues’ of the discipline in both senses of the word – not only those attributes required to engage in it, but the merits of doing it …


2019 Annual Meeting Sessions, Society of Hindu-Christian Studies 2019 Butler University

2019 Annual Meeting Sessions, Society Of Hindu-Christian Studies

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Hindu Pluralism: Religion And The Public Sphere In Early Modern India, Reid B. Locklin 2019 University of Toronto

Book Review: Hindu Pluralism: Religion And The Public Sphere In Early Modern India, Reid B. Locklin

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern India. By Elaine M. Fisher. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017, xii + 285 pages


Book Review: Hagiography And Religious Truth: Case Studies In The Abrahamic And Dharmic Traditions, Jon Paul Sydnor 2019 Emmanuel College (Boston)

Book Review: Hagiography And Religious Truth: Case Studies In The Abrahamic And Dharmic Traditions, Jon Paul Sydnor

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Hagiography and Religious Truth: Case Studies in the Abrahamic and Dharmic Traditions. Edited by Rico G. Monge, Kerry P. C. San Chirico, and Rachel J. Smith. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016, xv + 265 pages


Book Review: In The Bosom Of The Father: The Collected Poems Of Benedictine Mystic, Edward T. Ulrich 2019 University of St. Thomas

Book Review: In The Bosom Of The Father: The Collected Poems Of Benedictine Mystic, Edward T. Ulrich

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of In the Bosom of the Father: The Collected Poems of Benedictine Mystic. Translated by Jacob Riyeff. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018, 226 pages


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